"Resident for a Day" is an ongoing program sponsored by GNYHA and its members to educate State legislators on physician training and the graduate medical education (GME) process in New York's teaching hospitals and the importance of GME to their constituents. At each participating facility, legislators are briefed by senior staff and given the opportunity to observe residents in their daily patient care activities. This special insert is part of GNYHA's continuing report on the program.

On September 27, NYS Senator Thomas K. Duane and Assemblyman Brian Kavanaugh took part in the "Resident for a Day" program at NYU Medical Center, where they were briefed by Dean and CEO Robert I. Grossman, M.D.; Executive Vice President Andrew W. Litt, M.D.;  Senior Vice President and General Counsel Annette Johnson, J.D.; Richard Miller, Chief Financial Officer; Gilda Ventresca-Ecroyd, Vice President  and Senior Associate Dean for Government Affairs; and Carol Bernstein, M.D., Associate Dean for Graduate Medical Education. Chief residents Marshall Fordyce, M.D., and Elizabeth Ross, M.D., introduced the legislators to residents in the cardiology service, where the legislators shared in the residents' educational experiences and learned more about the residents' myriad patient care activities. 

On September 28, Assemblyman Adriano Espaillat participated in the program at the Columbia Campus of the NewYork-Presbyterian Healthcare system. The Assemblyman was welcomed and briefed by William Polf, Ph.D., Senior Vice President, External Affairs; Helen Morik, Vice President, Government and Community Affairs; Richard S. Liebowitz, M.D., Vice President, Medical Affairs; Andrea Castellanos, Vice President, Clinical Services; and GNYHA staff. He then met with Adam Saltzman, M.D., Chief Resident for Internal Medicine, and attended a multi-disciplinary meeting, during which an attending physician, fellow residents, nurses, and social workers discussed current internal medicine cases. Next, he visited a cardiac catheterization unit where he observed residents under the supervision of attending physicians perform a cardiac intervention procedure.

On October 2, GNYHA staff and Barbara King, Vice President of Government Affairs at Continuum Health Partners, and Ethan Fried, M.D., Director of Graduate Medical Education at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center, met with Assemblyman Daniel O'Donnell in his district office to brief him on the importance of GME in providing medical training to physician residents (who in turn provide care to his constituents), the pathway for an individual to become a physician from undergraduate medical education in medical school to GME in a teaching hospital, and the financing of GME. Assemblyman O'Donnell's legislative district includes St. Luke's Hospital.

On October 3, Senator John Sampson, Ranking Member on the Senate Health Committee, participated in the program at Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center, where he was briefed by Mohammad Zahir, M.D., Director of Graduate Medical Education; Meg Allyn Krilov, M.D., Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Residency Program Director; Konstantin Lipelis, M.D., Chief Resident, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation; Kay Lawrence, Public Relations; and GNYHA staff. The Senator then toured the hospital's Rehabilitation Unit and sat in on a multidisciplinary meeting, where he heard several rehabilitation cases being discussed by an attending physician, residents, physical therapists, nurses, and social workers. He then toured the hospital's traumatic brain injury unit.

Also on October 3, Assemblyman Steven Cymbrowitz participated in the program at Lutheran Medical Center in Brooklyn. He visited the Family Physician Family Health Center, where he talked with Claudia Lyon, M.D., the residency program director, and the two chief residents. He then went on inpatient teaching rounds with Daniel Giaccio, M.D., residency program director for internal medicine, along with several residents and medical students. Following these experiences, Assemblyman Cymbrowitz met with Lutheran President and Chief  Executive Officer Wendy Goldstein and other members of the senior staff.

GNYHA is extremely grateful to all of these State legislators and member hospitals for their strong participation in this program and their support of GME.

Senator Duane (at head of table)  and Assemblyman Kavanaugh (right)  discuss residency training with cardiology residents at NYU Medical Center.		L. to r.: Julio Batista, Coordinator of Government and Community Affairs; Willa Brody, Director, Government Relations; Helen Morik, VP, Government and Community Affairs; Assemblyman Espaillat; and Richard S. Liebowitz, M.D., VP of Medical Affairs at the NewYork-Presbyterian Columbia Campus.
L. to r. (back): Adam Saltzman, M.D., Chief Resident, Internal Medicine; Assemblyman Espaillat; and Richard S. Liebowitz, M.D., Vice President, Medical Affairs, with multidisciplinary team-including residents, attending physicians, nurses, and social workers-on the internal medicine unit at the NewYork-Presbyterian Columbia Campus.		Assemblyman Espaillat trying on his white doctor's coat as part of the Resident for a Day program at the  NewYork-Presbyterian Columbia Campus, with VP of Medical Affairs Richard S. Liebowitz, M.D. and Sr. VP of External Affairs William A. Polf, Ph.D.
Left to right: Mark Ross, M.D., Director, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation; Konstatin Lipellis, M.D., Chief Resident, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation; and Senator John Sampson at Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center.		Senator Sampson at a meeting with residents and physicians at Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center during the "Resident for a Day" program.
Left to right: Konstatin Lipellis, M.D.; Senator John Sampson; Mohammad Zahir, M.D., Director, GME; and Mark Ross, M.D. at Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center.		Assemblyman Cymbrowitz with Lutheran Medical Center President and CEO Wendy Goldstein.